difficult to get; scarce in relation to demand: said of commodities on a market, or of money available for loans

characterized by such scarcity: a tight market

concise; condensed: said of language, style, etc.

Now Chiefly Dial. well-proportioned; shapely

Dialectal competent; capable

Informal stingy; parsimonious

Slang drunk

☆ Slang intimate; familiar; friendly: usually with with

Origin of tight

Middle English altered (prob. influenced, influence by toght: see taut) ; from thight ; from Old English -thight, strong, akin to Old Norse thēttr, German dicht, tight, thick ; from Indo-European base an unverified form tenk-, to thicken, congeal from source Middle Irish tēcht, coagulated